Time to Move

"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck) 12/23/2015 at 15:52 • Filed to: None

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Predicted storm surge from the National Weather Service SLOSH model. Will my house flood? No telling. I’m out of the FEMA dFIRM flood zones and the model doesn’t take into account all of the levees and pump stations between us and the Gulf. But who knows? It could happen!

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Wurrwulf > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/23/2015 at 15:59

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I’m sure my flood insurance will be tripling soon.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Wurrwulf 12/23/2015 at 16:04

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Is it even possible to buy flood insurance in a known flood zone. Like if you lived below sea level and often hurricanes come through, would they just say no? And does putting the house on stilts help the rates?

TheRealBicycleBuck > Wurrwulf 12/23/2015 at 16:04

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Mine too!

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/23/2015 at 16:04

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Is this map just showing Louisiana becoming a giant lake?

Matt Nichelson > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/23/2015 at 16:07

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Not to sound nosy, but what area of LA do you live? I live in MS so that’s why I was asking.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 12/23/2015 at 16:12

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Yeah, pretty much everything south of I-10/I-12.

When Katrina hit, there was an 18 ft storm surge in New Orleans, 25 ft storm surge in Biloxi. Hotels there saw wave action on the third floor.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Matt Nichelson 12/23/2015 at 16:12

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Greater Baton Rouge area.

Future next gen S2000 owner > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/23/2015 at 16:24

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When you live below sea level, your gonna have a bad time.

Jack Does Cars > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/23/2015 at 16:37

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Well Louisiana is losing a football field worth of land per hour due to climate change...

TheRealBicycleBuck > Future next gen S2000 owner 12/23/2015 at 16:37

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Most of the coast, south Louisiana included, is above sea level. Some of the folks living within polders (areas like New Orleans which are completely surrounded by levees) do live below sea level.

It’s the wind-driven storm surges that are the real problem. When the sea level rises 25 feet, you have to live way inland to avoid getting flooded.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Jack Does Cars 12/23/2015 at 16:41

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Depends on where you look....

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?…

The Atchafalaya basin isn’t as heavily dredged as the Mississippi river basin. Stop the dredging, grow the coastline.

The flip side is: stop the dredging, destroy the nation’s economy.

shop-teacher > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/23/2015 at 16:44

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Yeah, that there is a problem.

EL_ULY > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/23/2015 at 16:49

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Just a cat 3? Dayum

Matt Nichelson > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/23/2015 at 16:55

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Gotcha. I’m in Hattiesburg so around 3 hours away from ya. I travel a good bit to LA but mainly to Slidell. They have a really nice wine store with an awesome deli and good beer selection.

Wurrwulf > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 12/23/2015 at 18:55

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It’s required by my lender for me to have flood insurance. My house is raised to approximately 5’ above sea level. While I do live outside of the 100 year flood protection that was just completed for the Greater New Orleans area, I do not live in a particularly flood prone area. Now, if a Cat 5 goes right up the mouth of the river, I’d be screwed, but that’s what insurance is for, after all (as long as you can get them to pay out).

Jack Does Cars > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/23/2015 at 19:40

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So its a lose/lose either way.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Matt Nichelson 12/23/2015 at 23:49

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I think I've been over there twice since we moved to LA.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Wurrwulf 12/23/2015 at 23:51

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It's a hard place to be. We are out of the flood plain, but carry flood insurance anyway. We were flooded during Tropical Storm Allison when someone tossed a couch in a ditch and it plugged the main culvert that drained our neighborhood. Since then, we've always carried flood insurance.

TheRealBicycleBuck > EL_ULY 12/23/2015 at 23:53

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It's a worst-case scenario. It doesn't take into account many of the local levees and pump stations.

EL_ULY > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/23/2015 at 23:59

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true true

TheRealBicycleBuck > Jack Does Cars 12/24/2015 at 00:07

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Pretty much. The corps is putting in new dredging requirements which will see the dredged materials put to use instead of being sent out to sea. That should help, but it won't fix everything.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/24/2015 at 07:33

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y’all are nuts for staying after Katrina. I suppose home is home but I couldn’t live like that. I worry enough about hurricanes in NJ and we only get one of any significance every 100 years or so.

Jack Does Cars > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/24/2015 at 09:07

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But on paper it is an improvement, and I suppose that's good.

Matt Nichelson > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/24/2015 at 09:17

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If you ever go back and have time to stop through check out Habanos. It’s on Gause Blvd less than a mile from I-59. Very nice little place in a strip mall by Harbor Freight.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 12/24/2015 at 10:09

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I wasn’t here for Katrina. I hear it wasn’t too bad where I live. I was here for Gustav. That one took down lots of trees and power lines. It hit Baton Rouge much harder than Katrina.

I moved here to help with recovery work. That took a special kind of crazy (and a big paycheck).

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/24/2015 at 20:14

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Well that is certainly an acceptable reason to move there!